Francis Ford Coppola said the following recently:

Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make the money in the wine industry. You work another job and get up at five in the morning and write your script.

This idea of Metallica or some rock n’ roll singer being rich, that’s not necessarily going to happen anymore. Because, as we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

This it the way it’s going to be for most artists here on out. It’s the way it’s been throughout history, and the arc of reality is coming back down for all creative types.

Mick Jagger said something like this recently. Rich artists are an anomaly. A person should create because he/she loves to create.